I thought it was obvious, but I meant that there is no organized left wing in America. we have no leftist party, no leftist senators, we have never had a leftist president, we don't even have mainstream left-wing media. there are many citizens who support leftist ideas, but we have no unified "left wing" by any stretch of the imagination, which is what I was trying to say.

you seem to believe that there are left-wing media sources though, and that they in fact "own most all of the media"! that's great to hear! I'd greatly appreciate it if you could point me to any of these. for each one you find, give me one article where they claim the following, which, according to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, is the most common tenet of leftist philosophies: > that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated.